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HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 63-78Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-011-9181-8
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Blood collection system; Donor flows; Petri nets; Discrete-event simulation
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This paper addresses the modeling and simulation of blood collection systems in France for both fixed site and mobile blood collection with walk in whole blood donors and scheduled plasma and platelet donors. Petri net models are first proposed to precisely describe different blood collection processes, donor behaviors, their material/human resource requirements and relevant regulations. Petri net models are then enriched with quantitative modeling of donor arrivals, donor behaviors, activity times and resource capacity. Relevant performance indicators are defined. The resulting simulation models can be straightforwardly implemented with any simulation language. Numerical experiments are performed to show how the simulation models can be used to select, for different walk in donor arrival patterns, appropriate human resource planning and donor appointment strategies.
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